Exhibitions
ARBAR opens a cycle to explore the continuity of action art of the nineties
C-72R, Borja Zabala and Ramon Guimarães are part of this continuity.
The practice of performance art in Spain emerged between the last decades of the 1960s and 1970s, in a context marked by the artistic avant-garde and political dissidence. However, it was not until the 1980s that this language acquired greater public presence and progressive institutional recognition.
On Saturday, August 30, at the ARBAR Art and Culture Center , Continuity in Action Art of the 90s was created. Three performative projects linked to the generation of artists who, during the nineties, began to explore and consolidate their careers in the field of action art in Spain are presented. These works reflect not only the initial impetus of an emerging scene, but also the way in which this new batch of artists positioned performance as a central language within contemporary practices.
Open Dialogue with C-72r (Marta Domínguez Sensada and Mònica Pagespetit) and the work Manifest , Ramón Guimararães and Flying free as well as Borja Zabala and Tarda d'acció en dos temps . These are committed artists who have made the immediacy of action art a powerful tool to activate reflective discourses, deploy rigorous analyses and formulate poignant critiques capable of questioning the dominant paradigms of cultural policy.
Manifest is an action related to what has defined us and. United for more than thirty years. Actions, energies and tangential concepts. Flying free Performance as a shared space and, at the same time, of intense solitude. A territory where trajectories run parallel, close but untouchable, advancing in the same impulse. It is the starting point of a constant process of construction, undoing and reinventing identities, a stage for the affirmation of the self and to give voice to what often remains hidden. A place where time runs out like sand inside a clock: when it seems to run out, you just have to turn it so that everything begins again. “ Flying Free is not a metaphor. It is a position. A way of being in the world, with the certainty that every prison can also become a flight if it is turned upside down”.
Borja Zabala explains his performance:
Performance as an escape, but first, as introspection.
Performance as abandonment, but first, as research.
The performance disguised as something else. Disguised. Sneaky.
But then, in the center of the target. In the precise shot.
On the right path. Relentless, unbeatable, except by oneself.
BORJA ZABALA. AFTERNOON OF ACTION IN 2 TIMES
2 actions:
1- I wash my hands.
2- Fisherman (fisherman performance)
